The 'Wright' decision

Singer David Van Day sensationally dumped his girlfriend live on Channel Five's Matthew Wright Show in 2009.

The former Dollar star and I'm a Celebrity contestant......stunned guests on the show when he declared, on air, that he was dumping his girlfriend, Sun beauty editor Sue Moxley, live on air.

Van Day claimed she put work before him, saying: “I've had enough. I can't do this any more and I mean this sincerely. I love you but I'm not prepared to put up with this any more.”

Busted on a billboard

Splash

Public: Storeys-high billboards show the romance between Charles Phillips and YaVaughnie Wilkins

A millionaire businessman who advised President Barack Obama on economic policy was forced to admit a secret affair after a series of giant billboards showing him with his long-time mistress appeared across America.

The photos of Charles Phillips, 50, and YaVaughnie Wilkins, 41, were shown on posters three-storeys high....after he left his lover to go back to his wife.

Ms Wilkins, in her forties, apparently spent £150,000 on the billboards.

The messy break-up

When American teenager Kane Zipperman found out he'd been betrayed his public dumping turned him into an internet sensation.

Kane, 17, from Canton, Georgia, discovered his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend and decided to get the best revenge by posting a hilarious text exchange between him and her on Twitter.

When Kane's ex texted him to ask if the relationship was actually over, his response was a carefully thought out series of witty insults and internet memes – which got 72,000 re-tweets and 90,000 favourites.

Jail dating

Prison officer's wife Janet Mitchell humiliated her husband in public after he confessed to having a six-year affair.

She dumped his clothes and belongings outside the gates of the jail where he worked and put up a poster branding him a rat.

Furious Janet, 42, from Swansea, south Wales then dumped her husband, also 42, after 20 years of marriage.

The walk-out

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons and his long-term partner Shannon Tweed appeared on the Today Show in 2011 to promote their US reality series.

But when the singer made a joke about his manhood and his flings with other women Shannon walked out telling him to “f* off.” As she ripped off her mike she said: “He's a pig and I don't like it. I'm tired. I'm tired of his life."

And finally....

If you shame YOURSELF in public you just might be able to save your relationship.

Take Joe Page. When his girlfriend caught him cheating on Facebook in 2011, he knew he had some serious grovelling to do.

Furious Jess Little threw him out of their Brighton flat and he realised drastic action was needed.... fast.